Chapter 286 - Elites (1/2)
As if sliding thirty meters amongst rocks and dirt was nothing, Hell Squad got to their feet with weapons ready and firing. A group of twenty battle droids was destroyed before they even understood how the clones had gotten to them.
Immediately after, Hell Squad split up, each member doing their part. Dageer jumped over a Separatist vehicle, and landed on top of a Dwarf-Spider droid. Putting his blaster against the clancker's head, he kept pressing the trigger until the outer layer of the Dwarf-Spider droid had melted, and it's circuits were destroyed.
As the droid's legs lost power, and it crumbled to the ground, Dageer took cover behind it's body, and pulled out a thermal detonator. He threw it over his shoulder, and it landed just under the next Dwarf-Spider droid, destroying it immediately. A few B1 units, and a Droideka, were also caught in the blast, and became scrap metal.
A few meters away from him, Dab pressed the trigger on his DC-15x four times. The first two lasers hit the stabilizers of two STAPs, sending them - and the droids using it - to the ground. The other two lasers hit the pilots of another two STAPs directly, and the two vehicles crashed on one another, creating a small explosion.
Not too far away, Tech and Metal ran forward, using the clanckers they killed as shields, until they got to the AATs. Metal climbed on it, and rolled two detonators into the barrel before jumping off. A few seconds later, a big explosion happened, shaking the ground, as the tank disappeared in a cloud of smoke and debris.
Three-four and Cell opted for a different approach. The scout got on top of the AAT, and opened the hatch, before unloading an entire magazine Into the crew. His next step was to grab the medic's arm, and pull the clone inside the AAT. Soon, the Separatist's own weapon was being used against them, blowing up a group of Droidekas, two Dwarf-Spider droids, and a whole bunch of B1 and B2 units. When they finally got out of the AAT, having rigged the tank with thermal detonators, a radius of about fifty meters around them was a scene of complete chaos and destruction.
All the while Hell Squad was wreaking havoc amongst the droids, Brain hadn't fired a single shot. He was fully focused only on putting explosives in every ammo crate and battery he could find.
”Ready, commander!”
”Roger that! Hell Squad, fall back!”
Instantly, Hell Squad disengaged, and, while Dab gave cover, taking down five more STAPs, hid behind the carcass of one of the AATs.
”Have fun, Brain!”
”Hahaha!”
Dageer's second-in-command laughed out loud as he pressed a switch, and a chain of explosions sent a heatwave over them, blowing up a cloud of dust, mud, soil, and pieces of droids. Metal cursed as half a B2 super battle droid almost hit him.
”Filters on!”
Turning on the filtering function on his helmet - tibana gas could be highly toxic, and the ammo crates had been full of it, in it's raw form - Dageer looked at the damage they had done. The convoy was gone, and it's escort was mostly in shreds, but there were still about two hundred clanckers alive.
”General Offee, we might need help down here.”
”Got it! 41st, attack!”
With the AATs and Dwarf-Spider droids gone, more soldiers showed themselves, and started firing at the seppies. Once again, the height advantage proved to be important, and the remaining clanckers were quickly eliminated.
From the moment Hell Squad took action, to the end of the battle, only twelve minutes had passed.
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Bariss was too concentrated on the lasers in front of her to notice Hell Squad's crazy stunt as the unit slid straight into the bulk of the enemy forces. However, she would have to be blind and deaf not to see the Dwarf-Spider droids, AATs, STAPs, and Droidekas that had been slaughtering the troops under her, disappear.